Docker Compose Is All You Need and Kubernetes People Are in Denial
I am going to say something that will upset a lot of people who have invested significant portions of their careers into container orchestration: Docker Compose is probably all you need. Not Kubernetes. Not ECS. Not Nomad. Not whatever managed container platform your cloud provider is pushing this quarter. Docker Compose. The thing you used in tutorials before graduating to real infrastructure. That thing. It is enough. Kubernetes is incredible technology you do not need Kubernetes can do amazing things. It can manage thousands of containers across hundreds of nodes. It can self-heal, auto-scale, handle rolling deployments, manage secrets, configure networking, and orchestrate workloads across multiple data centres. It is genuinely impressive engineering.